Originally, the Teen Brigade intended to bring the Fantastic Four together to battle the Hulk, but instead brought Iron Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, and Thor together to form the Avengers.

[8][9] He became close to the recently revived Captain America although his guilt led him to leave the Avengers and seek out Banner and Hulk on his own.

While at full power, Rick single-handedly stops both the Kree and Skrull fleets long enough to put an end to the conflict.

Sometime after, Mar-Vell dies of cancer that he received when he was exposed to a deadly nerve gas stolen by the villain Nitro.

However, despite the antidote, Mar-Vell still developed cancer and there was some momentary concern that the link Rick shared with him could have caused himself to contract the condition.

[28] Rick was going to undergo a massive blood transfusion to treat this ailment when the hospital was attacked by monsters created by the Dire Wraiths.

[34] General Ross tried to stop the process of remerging the two, and Rick intervened only to be dumped into the chemical nutrient bath that was fusing Banner and the Hulk again, transforming into a Hulk-like creature.

Sterns is then turned back into the Leader, drastically altering his appearance, and Rick is cured of his Hulk transformations.

While on a book tour, he meets Marlo Chandler without realizing that she had only recently broken up with the Hulk (then acting as a Las Vegas thug with the alias Mr. Fixit).

[47] A horrified Rick refuses Reed Richards's offer to carry out a DNA test, saying that he does not want to know, especially if she is truly his mother.

[57] His serious health problems force him to be brought by the Avengers to the now-captive Supreme Intelligence for aid, which marks the beginning of the Destiny War, as Kang the Conqueror's rejection of his apparent destiny to become Immortus results in Rick's access to the mysterious 'Destiny Force' being used to draw in a team of seven Avengers from different points in time to act as his protectors.

Over the course of these events, Rick's injury is healed when he is able to channel the Destiny Force into himself,[58] and after the final battle with the powerful Time Keepers,[59] he is joined with Genis-Vell (the new Captain Marvel and son of Mar-Vell), due to a temporal paradox involving the future Genis-Vell linking with Rick to save his life.

Genis-Vell's unique birth and accelerated aging makes him the opposite of Rick: full of power but without experience.

He is later yanked back in time to the Destiny War, where he aids his younger self in the conflict leading to his bond with Genis.

Rick encounters two older versions of himself: one an aging collector surviving under the rule of the Maestro; the other a super-villain named Thanatos.

In part due to Rick's influence, Genis' madness calmed to a point where he was able to maintain a veneer of sanity, albeit with some unpredictability.

He creates a recording studio for Rick that allows for fame and fortune at the sake of Internet-based sales of a song written for Marlo.

[63] In the aftermath of World War Hulk, the Intelligencia transform Rick Jones into a blue Hulk-like creature called A-Bomb.

[64] He is later depowered by Doc Green, a new personality of Bruce Banner who believes gamma-powered superhumans to be a threat to humanity.

Deathlok, Daisy Johnson, and Jemma Simmons investigated Rick' house and discovered a hidden escape route.

Battlecarrier to retrieve Jones prompts The Pentagon into retaliating by unleashing a monster called the American Kaiju on the New Avengers.

[70] In the aftermath of the events that transpired at Pleasant Hill, Steve Rogers offers Rick the chance to join S.H.I.E.L.D.

[71] During the "Secret Empire" storyline, Rick entrusts hacker Rashaun Lucas with data to prove the innocence of Captain America, who the Red Skull brainwashed into becoming a Hydra sleeper agent.

However, a group of scientists retrieve his corpse and revive him as an Abomination/A-Bomb-like creature called "Subject B" before he is eventually returned to normal.

He received special training in combat and gymnastics by Captain America, making him a highly skilled martial artist.

[77] Focusing this power allowed him to perform amazing feats, such as summoning various members of the Avengers from past, present and future.

[78] Rick's latent psionic potential had been once unleashed by the Kree Supreme Intelligence, but he is unable to utilize it at will.

After being kidnapped and experimented on by the Intelligencia,[80] Rick gains the ability to transform into a blue-skinned creature resembling the Abomination.

He is later depowered after the Hulk drains his gamma radiation, but gains the ability to learn information rapidly, making him an expert in computer hacking.

[81][82][83][84][65][4] As Subject B, Rick has superhuman strength, enhanced durability, regeneration, claws, and the ability to generate corrosive acid.